SynthesisObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2019
Infrared Thermography for Estimating Supraclavicular Skin Temperature and BAT Activity in Humans: A Systematic Review.
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- Effect of habitual cold exposure on brown adipose tissue activity in Arctic adults: a systematic review.International journal of circumpolar health · 2025Pooled it
- Brown adipose tissue transplantation as a novel alternative to obesity treatment: a systematic review.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Pooled it
- Circulating succinate changes during acute cold exposure are not related with brown adipose tissue in humans.Journal of physiology and biochemistry · 2026Trial
- Use of the Spanish Version of the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) Scale: A Meta-Research Study of Systematic Reviews.Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapy · 2026Review
- EAT Thickness and BAT-Related Thermogenesis: Dual Imaging Phenotypes Associated with Hepatic Steatosis Severity in MASLD.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Thermogenic Activation of Adipose Tissue by Caffeine During Strenuous Exercising and Recovery: A Double-Blind Crossover Study.Metabolites · 2025Article
- Infrared thermography unveiled the variation of brown adipose tissue thermogenesis among East Asian adults.Physiological reports · 2025Article
- Brown fat detection by infrared thermography-An invaluable research methodology with noteworthy uncertainties confirmed by a mathematical proof.Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism · 2023Article
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- Influences of ovarian hormones on physiological responses to cold in women.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2022Review
- Altered brown fat thermoregulation and enhanced cold-induced thermogenesis in young, healthy, winter-swimming men.Cell reports. Medicine · 2021Article
- Lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) model for obesity early detection using thermal images.Digital healthArticle
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveBrown adipose tissue (BAT) is a thermogenic tissue with potential as a therapeutic target in the treatment of obesity and related metabolic disorders. The most used technique for quantifying human BAT activity is the measurement of
methodsThe data sources for this review were PubMed, Web of Science, and EBSCOhost (SPORTdiscus), and eligible studies were those conducted in humans.
resultsIn most studies in which participants were first cooled, an increase in IRT-measured SST was noted. However, only 5 of 24 such studies also involved a nuclear technique that confirmed increased activity in BAT, and only 2 took into account the thickness of the fat layer when measuring SST by IRT.
conclusionsMore work is needed to understand the involvement of tissues other than BAT in determining IRT-measured SST; at present, IRT cannot determine whether any increase in SST is due to increased BAT activity.
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